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The interpretation of experiments on reactive semiconductor surfaces requires statistically significant sampling of molecular dynamics, but conventional ab initio methods are limited due to prohibitive computational costs. Machine-learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-19 Hendrik Weiske , Rhyan Barrett , Ralf Tonner-Zech , Patrick Melix , Julia Westermayr

In a multiscale modeling approach, we present computer simulation results for a rectifying bipolar nanopore on two modeling levels. In an all-atom model, we use explicit water to simulate ion transport directly with the molecular dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 Zoltán Ható , Mónika Valiskó , Tamás Kristóf , Dirk Gillespie , Dezső Boda

Accurate prediction of the water properties from a low-cost ab-initio method still a foremost problem for chemists and physicist. Though density functional approaches starting from semilocal to hybrid functionals are tested, those are not…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-01 Subrata Jana , Lucian A. Constantin , Prasanjit Samal

We have applied path integral simulations, in combination with new ab initio based water potentials, to investigate nuclear quantum effects in liquid water. Because direct ab initio path integral simulations are computationally expensive, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Thomas Spura , Christopher John , Scott Habershon , Thomas D. Kühne

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used in different scientific fields to investigate a broad range of physical systems. However, the accuracy of calculation is based on the model considered to describe the atomic interactions. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-08 Márcio S. Gomes-Filho , Alberto Torres , Alexandre Reily Rocha , Luana S. Pedroza

We discuss how to include our recently proposed thermopotentiostat technique [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136803 (2021)] into any existing ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) package. Using thermopotentiostat AIMD simulations in the canonical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-12 F. Deißenbeck , S. Wippermann

A multilevel approach to sample the potential energy surface in a path integral formalism is proposed. The purpose is to reduce the required number of ab initio evaluations of energy and forces in ab initio path integral molecular dynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-22 Hua Y. Geng

The so-called thermodynamic anomalies of water form an integral part of the peculiar behaviour of this both important and ubiquitous molecule. In this paper our aim is to establish whether the recently proposed TIP4P/2005 model is capable…

Simulation techniques based on accurate and efficient representations of potential energy surfaces are urgently needed for the understanding of complex aqueous systems such as solid-liquid interfaces. Here, we present a machine learning…

The many-body polarization energy is the major source of non-additivity in strongly polar systems such as water. This non-additivity is often considerable and must be included, if only in an average manner, to correctly describe the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Rory A. J. Gilmore , Martin T. Dove , Alston J. Misquitta

We report calculations of the surface tension of the water-air interface using ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations. We investigate the simulation cell size dependence of the surface tension of water from force field molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Yuki Nagata , Tatsuhiko Ohto , Mischa Bonn , Thomas D Kühne

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational changes through MD simulations is challenging due to the relatively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-20 Diego E. Kleiman , Hassan Nadeem , Diwakar Shukla

We present a simple and accurate computational method, which facilitates ab-initio path-integral molecular dynamics simulations, where the quantum mechanical nature of the nuclei is explicitly taken into account, at essentially no…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Chris John , Thomas Spura , Scott Habershon , Thomas D. Kühne

Accurate prediction of energy and forces for 3D molecular systems is one of fundamental challenges at the core of AI for Science applications. Many powerful and data-efficient neural networks predict molecular energies and forces from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ali Mollahosseini , Mohammed Haroon Dupty , Wee Sun Lee

We present a highly accurate and transferable parameterization of water using the atomic cluster expansion (ACE). To efficiently sample liquid water, we propose a novel approach that involves sampling static calculations of various ice…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 Eslam Ibrahim , Yury Lysogorskiy , Ralf Drautz

Path integral molecular dynamics simulations, combined with an ab initio evaluation of interactions using electronic structure theory, incorporate the quantum mechanical nature of both the electrons and nuclei, which are essential to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Ondrej Marsalek , Thomas E. Markland

The recent improvement in experimental capabilities for interrogating and controlling molecular systems with ultrafast coherent light sources calls for the development of theoretical approaches that can accurately and efficiently treat…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Jonathan R. Mannouch , Aaron Kelly

All-atom molecular dynamics has been recently proven a useful tool for the study of supramolecular polymers. While the high resolution offered by the atomistic models may allow for deep comprehension of the assembled structure, obtaining a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-20 Davide Bochicchio , Giovanni M. Pavan

A fundamental objective of materials modeling is identifying atomic structures that align with experimental observables. Conventional approaches for disordered materials involve sampling from thermodynamic ensembles and hoping for an…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Tigany Zarrouk , Miguel A. Caro

Parametrizing energy functions for ionic systems can be challenging. Here, the total energy function for an eutectic system consisting of water, SCN$^-$, K$^+$ and acetamide is improved vis-a-vis experimentally measured properties. Given…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Kai Töpfer , Eric Boittier , Michael Devereux , Andrea Pasti , Peter Hamm , Markus Meuwly